ITLC Tutorials

July 2, 2019October 19, 2021

Manage your XenServer or XCP-ng Pool with Xen Orchestra… inside Xen Orchestra!

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

We use Xen Orchestra as the web interface for students to create and manage VMs via our XCP-ng Pool in PJ Carrolls. The login is found at https://xoa.comp.dkit.ie and most students are familiar with this excellent resource. But what if a student wanted to mange their own pool of virtualisation servers in a Specialist Lab, running either XCP-ng or XenServer?

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May 24, 2019April 29, 2021

How to Dockerise a Node.js application

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

In this article we’ll show you how to create and deploy a Docker image for an application you have written in Node.js.

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May 22, 2019

Continuous Integration Pipelines with GitLab using Docker

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

This tutorial is very similar to the previous one, except this time we will create our GitLab Runner on Docker. As we won’t be repeating a lot of the material, please read the other tutorial first.

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May 21, 2019May 24, 2019

Continuous Integration Pipelines with GitLab using XOA

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

GitLab Runner is the open source project that is used to run your jobs and send the results back to GitLab. It is used in conjunction with GitLab CI, the open-source continuous integration service included with GitLab that coordinates the jobs.

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May 20, 2019November 24, 2021

Adding Files from your GitLab Project to a Dockerfile

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

In the last tutorial we look at adding local files to your Dockerfile for image deployment. This time, let’s look at at files from your project on the DkIT GitLab server.

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May 17, 2019October 8, 2019

Managing your own Docker Host with XOA

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

If you read our recent tutorial series on using Docker Containers via a web frontend you may also be curious about Docker on the command line.

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May 16, 2019May 16, 2019

Accessing Your Docker Containers Remotely

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This tutorial follows on from Accessing Your Docker Containers on your Private Network and is part of a series. If this is your first time here, maybe start at the beginning. This is the final part.

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May 16, 2019August 8, 2019

Accessing Your Docker Containers on your Private Network

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

This tutorial follows on from Using Pre-Built Docker Container Templates and is part of a series. If this is your first time here, maybe start at the beginning.

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May 15, 2019September 17, 2019

Using Pre-Built Docker Container Templates

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

This tutorial follows on from Creating a Docker Container from a Pulled Image and is part of a series. If this is your first time here, maybe start at the beginning.

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May 15, 2019July 3, 2019

Creating a Docker Container from a Pulled Image

Watch out! This tutorial is over 6 years old. Please keep this in mind as some code snippets provided may no longer work or need modification to work on current systems.

This tutorial follows on from Building an Image from a Dockerfile (and adding to the DkIT Registry) and is part of a series. If this is your first time here, maybe start at the beginning.

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